Robert "Bob" Harland | |
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Harland as Jack Flood (left) with Stephen McNally as Paul Marino in Target: The Corruptors!.
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Born |
Robert Yurgatis c. 1934 Pennsylvania, U.S. |
Occupation | Actor: Law of the Plainsman Target: The Corruptors! |
Spouse(s) | Jane Muriel Earle (married c. 1956) |
Children | 2 |
Robert "Bob" Harland (born Robert Yurgatis c. 1934 in Pennsylvania) is a retired American actor whose principal work was performed on television in the late 1950s and 1960s. He appeared as a regular in the role of the young investigator Jack Flood on ABC's Target: The Corruptors! (1961–1962), co-starring with Stephen McNally as the newspaper reporter Paul Marino.
In the 1940 United States Census, Harland was five years old and resided in Chester in Delaware County in far southeastern Pennsylvania. His parents, of Lithuanian descent, were Frank Yurgatis (1914-1960), a longshoreman, and Gabler Yurgatis (born c. 1916). Harland and his wife, the former Jane Earle (born 1938), have two children born in Chester, a daughter in 1957, and a son, Robert "Bob" Yurgatis.
Prior to Target: The Corruptors! Harland had previously appeared in a recurring role as Deputy Billy Lordan on NBC's Law of the Plainsman with Michael Ansara and Gina Gillespie. Among the episodes in which Harland appeared were "Trojan Horse", "Amnesty", "Rabbit's Fang", "A Question of Courage", "The Comet", "The Rawhiders", and "Common Ground".
Harland's first acting appearance occurred 1958 in the role of Hank Moore in the film, As Young As We Are. Pippa Scott plays a new high school teacher who falls in love with Harland, who turns out to be a student though Harland was about a year older than Scott at the time. Harland starred in one of the final episodes of CBS's The Millionaire fantasy drama series with Marvin Miller.